Sun, 31 Jan 2010

Comment system is down

The comment system is down (again). This time it's because Haloscan is closing their doors. I'm working on getting another one attached. joat: 19:10:21 31 Jan 2010

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010

Still here...

Still here. Been very busy. Would you believe starting a new class (today) means less busy? New stuff coming... joat: 07:02:07 14 Jan 2010

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009

TBs and Identica verb for Ubiquity

After a bit of space juggling, the in-house system has been upgraded and put back online with a bit over 1TB of storage. Before any of you in the VPN gets "that look", 500GB of that is for VM storage. Given the software we're working with in class, we're going to need every bit of that. While rooting around in my older drives, I came across some notes about Ubiquity, which I had installed on the old system. It caused me to check on the verbs for Identica (now SafeNet). Luckily, Jose Mora (jmora on SafeNet) had been working on an update. I was able to grab his working code (it just posts for now) and test it out. Thanks jmora! joat: 21:13:46 3 Nov 2009

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Thu, 08 Oct 2009

Downtime

I busted my hump in the month of September. Seriously, I worked very hard during that month! So much so that I never want to repeat it again. Maybe I'll try to put a few things off to only two months before a deadline vice all in the same month? In any case, a couple things are coming up to counter the affects of last month. For the personal side, I'm celebrating my birthday by taking my wife to VIR and putting her in one of the pace cars (thanks Aaron!). (She's the race fan.) Mebbe in the next year or so I can swing an autograph with Tony S. for her (I grew up near Watkins Glen and went to school with one of the Bodine brothers). On the technology side (to those in the VPN), thanks to my finally settling on a document management system (Alfresco) and digging in, you may notice that there's no storage space left on the server. To counter this, I'm laying in an extra TB of drive space: 500 GB this weekend, another the next. In short, the main server will be offline for at least part of Sunday, if not also Monday, and then again next weekend. As always, services will come back online piecemeal as I, or volunteers (hint!), reinstall them. joat: 22:20:22 8 Oct 2009

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Wed, 01 Apr 2009

Content freeze

I'm putting a content freeze on the wiki and blog content until the "powers that be" upgrade the system (assuming they do it in the near future). My home system will be offline for an upgrade and overhaul to support more services (company coming again). Maybe I'll move some of the background services to NSLU2's? joat: 21:19:05 1 Apr 2009

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Sun, 16 Nov 2008

Back online

The system upgrades took much, much longer than expected. If no one else has commented on it, it appears that MP3 functionality has disappeared from just about all of the leading Linux distributions. Avoiding the reasons why this is happening, it creates a number of issues which must be worked around. One loss is the ability to use LiquidSoap as a source for hold music in Asterisk (even though the capbility can be recovered, it doesn't yet "fit well" with Icecast or Asterisk inputs). At first, I attempted to use 64-bit Linux, with the objective of using LiquidSoap for a number of features. I had so much difficulty in getting Liq to work that I abandoned the 64-bit effort. Little did I know that it wouldn't work in 32-bit either. To make a long story short, time constraints have left me with a 32-bit box with a borked Liq (only plays OGGs) and a number of work-arounds to get a few functions (Asterisk, MythTV, etc.) working. I've even resorted to using SqueezeCenter as a hold music source in Asterisk. It's overkill, using way too many processing cycles to provide a single function, but it works. joat: 09:46:35 16 Nov 2008

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Sat, 11 Oct 2008

Busy

Offline (more or less) for a bit. Doing some heavy lifting on coding for a friend. joat: 23:26:58 11 Oct 2008

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Fri, 04 Jul 2008

Feeds update

Hmm... down to 288 feeds, from 400+ earlier in the year. The hard part is saving the "to keep" stuff from the blogs that I no longer want to read (it is an election year after all...). joat: 08:12:15 4 Jul 2008

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